8-letter words containing ta
- averstar — (company) The US software engineering company that developed Hal, under their former name, "Intermetrics". Other products include CS-4, Red, Mwave Developers Toolkit (multimedia for IBM PC), cross-compilers for C and C++; Ada '83, Ada 95, and SAMeDL. AverStar also supply client/server systems; custom software applications and turnkey systems; independent verification and validation; CAE integration technology; languages and compilers: Ada, C, C++, HDLs (MHDL), Modula, SPL/1. Address: Intermetrics, Inc., 733 Concord Avenue, Cambridge, MA 02138, USA. Telephone: +1 (617) 661 1840. Fax: +1 (617) 868 2843. Address: 7918 Jones Branch Drive, McLean, Va 22102, USA. Telephone: +1 (703) 827-2606. Fax: +1 (703) 827-5560. Also Houston, TX, Huntington Beach, CA, Warminster, PA, and others.
- backstab — to attack in a deceitful manner
- backstay — a stay leading aft from the upper part of a mast to the deck or stern
- backtalk — an impudent response; impudence.
- ballista — an ancient catapult for hurling stones, etc
- bangtail — a horse's tail cut straight across but not through the bone
- baptista — a female given name.
- bar-tack — a close series of stitches crossing a piece of cloth, as in an article of clothing, in order to reinforce it at a point of concentrated strain.
- barbital — diethylbarbituric acid, C8H12N2O3, a drug in the form of a white powder, used as a hypnotic and sedative: it is habit-forming and toxic
- baristas — Plural form of barista.
- barletta — a port in SE Italy, in Apulia. Pop: 92 094 (2001)
- barostat — a device for maintaining constant pressure, such as one used in an aircraft cabin
- barrista — Misspelling of barista.
- bastards — Plural form of bastard.
- bastardy — the condition of being a bastard; illegitimacy
- batangas — a port in the Philippines, in SW Luzon. Pop: 293 000 (2005 est)
- batavian — of or relating to Batavia (a former name for Holland or Jakarta) or its inhabitants
- battaile — (obsolete spelling of, battle).
- battalia — the arrangement of military troops prepared for battle
- beatable — Someone who is beatable can be beaten.
- bedstand — a bedside table
- berretta — biretta
- beta ray — a stream of beta particles
- betacism — a type of speech impediment where the b sound is excessive
- betatron — a type of particle accelerator for producing high-energy beams of electrons, having an alternating magnetic field to keep the electrons in a circular orbit of fixed radius and accelerate them by magnetic induction. It produces energies of up to about 300 MeV
- betatter — to make ragged
- betazole — a substance, C 5 H 9 N 3 , used in medicine to stimulate gastric secretion.
- bidental — a sacred place where lightning has struck
- big data — Big data is extremely large amounts of information that can only be used with special computers.
- big talk — bragging or boasting talk
- birretta — a stiff square cap with three or four upright projecting pieces extending from the center of the top to the edge, worn by ecclesiastics.
- bistable — having two stable states
- blatancy — a blatant quality or thing
- blu-tack — a type of blue, malleable, sticky material used to attach paper, card, etc to walls and other surfaces
- boatable — able to be carried by boat
- boattail — a large species of blackbird, Quiscalus major, found in coastal areas of the southeastern US
- bonytail — a fish, Gila elegans, found in the Colorado River, having flaring fins and a thin caudal peduncle.
- bootable — containing software used to boot a computer
- bostangi — a Turkish imperial guard
- botanica — a shop that sells herbs, charms, and other items associated with alternative medicine or magic
- botanist — A botanist is a scientist who studies plants.
- botanize — to collect or study plants
- brantail — a redstart
- brattain — Walter Houser. 1902–87, US physicist, who shared the Nobel prize for physics (1956) with W. B. Shockley and John Bardeen for their invention of the transistor
- brentano — Clemens (Maria) (ˈkleːmənz). 1778–1842, German romantic poet and compiler of fairy stories and folk songs esp (with Achim von Arnim) the collection Des Knaben Wunderhorn (1805–08)
- bretagne — Brittany2
- brittany — a region of NW France, the peninsula between the English Channel and the Bay of Biscay: settled by Celtic refugees from Wales and Cornwall during the Anglo-Saxon invasions; disputed between England and France until 1364
- bro talk — Māori English
- brutally — savage; cruel; inhuman: a brutal attack on the village.
- buckstay — a beam held by stays to the exterior of a masonry wall, as that of a furnace or boiler, to keep the adjacent areas of the wall from being forced outward.